One particular craze that i am unable to rationalise to anyone is my obsession with Hndustani movies...creepy isn't it? Maybe it started with the 70's hits that the malays seem to drool on...Andaz,Haathi mere saathi(the crying elephants,remember that?). Growing up in the early 70's was great in my view. TV was just coming in to everyone's households, movie scene has brought out mega hits and mega craze,Bruce LEE,Wang Yu and on the hindustani side Rajesh Khanna and his crying elephants, Rishi Kapoor's Bobby. Hindustani movies though can really be enjoyable to watch because it is like the nescafe packet,3 in 1 that is, you have comedy, action and drama and dont forget the running around the trees with their saris sparkly clean and shining(how did they do that?)Those days my particular favourite actor was Jeetendra but honestly now i cant remember any of his movies.In Kuching the theatre to be for hindustani movies was REX theatre.Somehow in the 80's and 90's i practically ignored the hindustani scene and have not seen another hindustani for ages since the great hit Bobby. Why then this love affair comes back? Blame it on Sharukh Khan and Kajol,yup the kush kush hit brought back that Hindustani bug. The recent Sharukh movie Om Shakti Om was a really enjoyable epic and i loved the choreography of some of the scenes .Actually my real favourite Indian actor is Om Puri but more of his portrayal in the English movies, City of Joy (the Patrick Swayze melodrama) and the salford based movie "East is East".So what does one buy when one in Dubai? Presumably gold at its famous souk,suits that can fit a king but for me? I cherished the dvd that i found at the global village, a hindustani "unknown" but great movie called Dor,it was shown on TV2 a year back and i was always looking for a dvd of that movie and behold my joy when i found it at the Indian Pavillion in Dubai global village. The actress Gul Panag efforts in this movie was worth the full attention, brilliant acting that can be assured.
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